Future computing in particle physics

15 Jun 2011, 14:00 → 17 Jun 2011, 19:00 GB

Cramond Room (e-Science Institute, Edinburgh)

Recent developments in computing and software architectures have resulted in huge potential for accelerating applications used in experimental particle physics. This is an ideal time to investigate how a significant performance boost can be achieved by the effective use of many-core and GPU architectures in a distributed computing environment, as well as utilising emerging I/O and storage technologies. This workshop aims to discuss what has been done so far in the field and what potential future development areas are feasible.

For travel etc details see:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1211/

Wednesday, 15 June

14:00 → 17:00 Overview and LHC Computing Challenges

Convener: Roger Jones (Physics Department-Lancaster University)

14:00 Welcome and Overview

Speaker: Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)

Slides 2011-06-15-futureComputing.pdf

14:10 Atlas computing challenges

Speaker: Jim Shank (Department of Physics-Boston University)

Slides shank_edinburgh_june_2011.pdf shank_edinburgh_june_2011.pptx

14:30 CMS strategic and tactical choices for multicore computing

Speaker: Mr Giulio Eulisse (FERMILAB)

Slides http://eulisse.web.cern.ch/eulisse/EDI-workshop.pdf

14:50 Tea and Discussion

15:20 Atlas software challanges

Speaker: David Rousseau (CERN)

Slides tr110615_davidRousseau_AtlasSW_edinburgh.pptx.pdf

15:40 ATLAS Distributred Computing Plans for the Future

Speaker: Dr Alexei Klimentov (Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

Slides ADC-FuturePlans_Jun15_2011.pdf ADC-FuturePlans_Jun15_2011.ppt

16:00 Issues with Simulating Events at High Luminosity in ATLAS

Speaker: John Derek Chapman (Cavendish Lab., Dept. of Physics-University of Cambridge)

Slides FutureComutingTalk.odp FutureComutingTalk.pdf

16:30 Discussion

18:00 → 19:00 Whisky Tasting Welcome Reception

Including Lecture on The Malt Whisky Cluster Vortex and Private Tour of Surgeons Museum. Sponsored by Dell.

Speaker: Dr Wishart David

Directions http://www.surgeonshall.com/location.aspx

Synopsis Wishart_Synopsis_eScience_2011_Final-1.pdf

Thursday, 16 June

09:00 → 10:40 Multicore Hardware and Applications

09:00 Manycore/gpu hardware: industry view

Speaker: Mr Roger Goff (DELL)

Slides GPU-Speeds+Feeds.pdf GPU-Speeds+Feeds.pptx

09:30 Progress and plans on multicore for Atlas

Speaker: Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))

Slides ATLAS_FutureComp_Jun16_athenaMP.odp ATLAS_FutureComp_Jun16_athenaMP.pdf

10:00 Atlas whole node plans

Speakers: Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh), Dr Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)

Slides FCworkshop-MCTF.pdf

10:20 Performance of Multi-Core Batch Nodes in a HEP Environment

Speaker: Mr Manfred Alef (KIT)

Slides gridka-benchmarking-fcpp-2011-06-16.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee and Discussion

11:10 → 12:40 Software optimisation and performance tuning

11:10 LLVM

Speaker: Rolf Seuster (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG))

Slides iwyu_rs.pdf

11:30 Optimization Using Tracing JITs

Speaker: Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))

Slides WimLavrijsen_FutureTech_EDI.odp WimLavrijsen_FutureTech_EDI.pdf

12:00 Performance analysis tools

Speakers: Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)), Roberto Agostino Vitillo (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)), Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))

Slides RobertoVitillo_FutureTech_EDI.pdf

12:20 CVMFS

Speaker: Ian Collier (UK Tier1 Centre)

Slides 2011-06-CVMFS-2.pdf

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch

13:40 → 15:00 Future IO

13:40 non-ROOT I/O

Speaker: Samvel Khalatyan (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides 110616.pdf

14:10 Remote I/O for users and future of CMS I/O layers.

Speaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)

Slides ComputingFuturesWorkshop.pdf

14:40 Atlas IO improvements and Future prospects

Speakers: Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari), Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh)

Slides ATLASIO-WB-FC.pdf ATLASIO-WB-FC.ppt

15:00 → 15:10 Tea

15:10 → 17:00 GPU/Manycore Applications: Motivation and projects

15:10 Atlas Analysis Model Perspectives

Speaker: Amir Farbin (Department of Physics-University of Texas at Arlington)

Slides AM-FutureComputing.pdf

15:30 Implementing parallel algorithms for data analysis in the ROOT/RooFit package

Speaker: Dr Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

Slides lazzaro.pdf

15:50 Experiences on using GPU accelerators for data analysis in ROOT/RooFit package

Speaker: Yngve Sneen Lindal (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitens. Univ. (NTNU))

Slides yngve.pdf

16:10 TMVA method optimisation feasiblity study

Speaker: Andrew John Washbrook (CERN)

Slides FCworkshop-TMVA.pdf

16:20 Discussion - Future Plans

19:30 → 21:30 Workshop dinner

Agua Restaurant, Apex City Hotel, Grassmarket, Edinburgh (Note: there are two Apex hotels in Grassmarket...)

How to get there... http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=213795916146126367870.0004a5d3c3b7fc62ce288&gl=uk&doflg=ptm&ie=UTF8&ll=55.947217,-3.191196&spn=0.003965,0.011362&z=17

Friday, 17 June

09:00 → 12:40 GPU/Manycore Applications: Motivation and projects

Convener: Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)

09:00 Perspectives on ATLAS tracking and the upgrade

Speaker: Markus Elsing (CERN)

Slides UpgradeTracking.pdf

09:20 Track reconstruction on GPUs

Speaker: Christian Schmitt (Institut fuer Physik-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)

Slides 2011_06_17_GPU_Edinburgh.pdf

10:00 Coffee and Discussion

10:20 HLT: Z Finder

Speaker: Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh)

Slides FCworkshop-Zfinder.pdf

10:30 Kalman filter

Speaker: Dmitry Emeliyanov (Particle Physics)

Slides KF_GPU_Edinburgh.pdf KF_GPU_Edinburgh.ppt

10:50 Bytestream decoding and cluster formation

Speaker: Jacob Howard (CERN)

Slides FutureComputing-Howard-17-June-2011.pdf

11:10 Discussion

11:30 GP using GPGPU - my experience with OpenCL

Speaker: Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari)

Slides

• GenetiX.pdf
• GenetiX.pptx
• GenetiX-windows version

12:00 Matrix Element analyses

Speaker: Robert Harrington (Boston University)

Slides robert_metop_6-17.pdf

12:20 Programming hybrid architectures with OpenMP accelerator directives

Speaker: Dr Alistair Hart (Cray Exascale Research Initiative Europe)

Slides hart_NESC_110617.pdf

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch